City Water For District Gets Okay
City commissioners approved supplying water to a rural district east of Chanute with 48 potential users and 168000 gallons monthly. rate to be set later. District delegates, led by Wayne Burghart, will return Feb 28 with a figure.
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Earl Reinhardt
Claud Camp
John Peters
Robert Pennington
Burghart
Leanna Road
K39
Brink and Dunwoody
Fora
Senate voting on union shop repeal falters in Senate
The Senate refused to end debate on the Taft-Hartley union shop repeal, 51-48, short by 15 votes of the required two thirds. President Johnson urged passage while Sen. Mansfield warned the measure is dead for the session if defeat repeats. The Missouri and Kansas votes split along party lines with Symington and Long in support from Missouri and Pear son and Carlson opposing from Kansas.
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Senate
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Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
Johnson
Congress
States
Missouri
Kansas
Pearson
Carlson
Symington
Long
Unemployment Falls to Nine Year Low of Four Percent
The nation’s unemployment rate slid to 4 percent in January a nine year low. Secretary of Labor W Willard Wirtz predicted it could drop to 3 5 percent or lower this year in testimony before Congress noting the White House advisers long term goal.
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Washington
Secretary of Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
Labor Department
White House
Wirtz
Joint Economic Committee of Congress
Traffic Fatalities in Topeka Record February 1966
Kansas traffic death log shows 0 fatalities in the Topeka area over the 24 hours ending 9 am Tuesday. For February the total is 10 deaths, 1966 year-to-date stands at 42, compared with 61 in the comparable 1965 period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Tribune Phone Contact Line Remains After 6 PM
Instructions urge readers to call their Tribune phone or, if unavailable, dial HE 1 3400 after 6 p.m. for reach. The note emphasizes mode of contact and timing to ensure access to a carrier.
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Tribune
City Planners Meet Tomorrow for Planning Studies Discussion
The February meeting of the city planning commission will be held at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Memorial building. City business includes discussion of text materials submitted by Burgwin and Martin, consultants, for the 701 planning studies report.
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Blessing
Dave Evans
E. Main
Martin Rotunno
Central Park
Rotunno
City Planning Commission
Memorial Building
Burgwin and Martin
Loyal Little Dog Blackie Found Dead After Seven Months
In Ashmore Illinois Blackie a small collie stood vigil at a road intersection for seven months drawing help from locals. He was killed by a car Sunday and buried in a pine box by neighbors including Gale Stiff. Airline pilots sent him a deluxe dog house for winter comfort.
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Ashmore
Ill
Blackie
Illinois
Gale Stiff
Inter
Chicago
Proposals Near Final Action On Constitution Amendments
Topeka AP reports three constitutional amendment proposals nearing approval for voter submission. Focuses include education article revision, 60 day annual legislative sessions, and alignment of federal and state income tax procedures. House and Senate actions continue with a judicial article revision shelved. Gov Avery to receive final appropriation bills funding welfare public health and state hospital programs totaling about 50 million dollars from general funds plus additional federal and special funds.
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Senate
House
Glee Smith
R-Larned
William H. Avery
General Fund
Spencer Foundation gifts 850000 for UMKC chemistry building
The Spencer Foundation donates 850000 toward the construction of a chemistry building at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, supporting expansion of the campus science facilities.
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Kansas City
Spencer Foundation
University of Missouri
Southeast Kansas Poultry Jamboree Attracts Hundreds
The Southeast Kansas Poultry Jamboree drew about 200 attendees at the National Guard Armory in Chanute. Exhibitors from Cherryvale Independence Girard Neodesha and Chanute attended. Speakers from Kansas State University Dr Albert Adams M E Jackson and Harry Reed of the Kansas Poultry Assn spoke. Prizes totaling 80 dollars were awarded for four egg show classes after a noon barbecue lunch.
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Cherryvale
Independence
Girard
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Chanute
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Weather forecast and warnings for Kansas area
The region faces mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers and possible thunderstorms through Wednesday and unseasonably warm temps. Freezing rain mixed with sleet and snow warnings cover northwest Kansas, while rain or drizzle and scattered storms are noted elsewhere, with highs ranging from near 20 in the northwest to the mid 60s in the southeast.
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Topeka
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Slaughter On Highway In Indiana Patrol Kills Two Cows
Bedford Indiana AP report says a state trooper chasing a roving herd of Angus cows on Interstate 37 killed two cows with his patrol car. Earlier accidents killed a dozen cows and left two motorists with minor injuries.
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Ind
Indiana
Johnson to send Humphrey on six nation Asian tour
President Johnson orders Vice President Hubert Humphrey to visit six Asian countries including South Vietnam as a follow up to the mid Pacific conference on the Vietnamese war. Moyers said the mission continues efforts to build a new economic and social structure for wartorn Vietnam.
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School boards restructure to separate high school and junior college
Garry Church is named principal of Senior High School and Wendell McMurray becomes dean of Neosho Junior College as Unified Dist. 413 and the junior college Board of Trustees plan a gradual separation. The boards approved new hires and rehires, accepted resignations, and discussed salaries and budget factors while the college moves to a new complex at 14th and Allen.
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Wendell McMurray
Neosho Junior College
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Dist. 413 Board of Education
Junior College Board of Trustees
Dean McMurray
Eldon Penner
Margaret Wood
College Advisory Board of Regents
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Runaway Boys Held for Relatives in Liberty
Two local boys who ran away yesterday are being held at Liberty Missouri for relatives. A third boy who separated from them contacted relatives from Kansas City by telephone. An Independence boy formerly of Chanute is in custody for Montgomery county probate court.
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Kansas City
Independence
Chanute
Montgomery County Probate Court
Jets Strike Again as Viet Cong Battle Rages Near Tuy Hoa
U S paratroopers killed at least 63 Viet Cong in close combat near Tuy Hoa 240 miles northeast of Saigon while Australians uncovered a large Communist supply depot 30 miles east of Saigon. South Vietnamese forces supports killed 52 or more Communists in the Mekong Delta ambush. A Navy Skyhawk was shot down 30 miles north of Vinh and the pilot reportedly captured.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Tuy Hoa
Mekong
North
Viet Nam
$25,000 Mark For Plant Site
Contributions to the Chamber of Commerce drive for the Alcorn Combustion Co. plant reached $25,000 toward an $38,500 goal. Funds pay for land, a railroad spur, and Santa Fe trackage changes. Contributions may be sent to the chamber office.
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Alcorn Combustion Co
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